I spent the rather cool weekend in search of waterfowl and had some decent luck. Today I started off before dawn in the East Meadows where I hoped to find some stuff on the river and perhaps in the flooded fields. The river was running fast and high so there was little activity there and the roads were just too rutted up to properly explore the area. I then headed north hitting Great Pond in Hatfield and then the fields up to the Sunderland Bridge and then south through Amherst and Hadley. Most stops featured at least some waterfowl with the most productive stop overall being the fields along Meadow Street in Amherst. The highlights (including all the waterfowl seen) below:

This afternoon as I did some work around the yard I noticed a Pine Warbler feeding on seeds under the feeders...first time I have one at the feeders. A walk along the Jabish Canal with Wilson produced a Winter Wren, a singing Pine Warbler and a Swamp Sparrow.

Yesterday started out fairly calm but the wind picked up by mid morning and made viewing a bit difficult with strong northwest winds bringing a quick end to our couple days of above normal temperatures. Despite the challenging weather I still had another spectacular day for waterfowl with 14 species. The biggest highlights included three neck tagged Canada Geese in Hadley that were tagged in Greenland and a group of half a dozen Northern Shovelers on a tiny pond at the UMASS Horse Farm (my highest count for this species in the county ever...my previous best was two a few different locations over the years).
*****update on neck tagged geese via Anthony Fox (researcher in Greenland)****